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Monday, November 2, 2015

Where did the Harry Potter concept originate?

JK Rowling published the first Harry Potter book way back in 1997 but where did the inspiration for her characters and book titles come from? One possible theory comes from the fact that a former boyfriend was a computer programmer who worked for Hewlett Packard.

HP could stand for Harry Potter or Hewlett Packard

This could possibly have meant that the books, and ultimately the movies, would have had slightly different titles:

HP and the Spellcheckers Stone

HP and the C:/ Drive of Secrets

HP and the Processor of Azkaban

HP and the Goblet of Firewall

HP and the Hardware of the Linux

HP and the Halftone Prints

HP and the Deathly Blue Screen

Also Hewlett's friends and enemies might have been called by other names:

HerMEMORY Granger

ROM Weasley

Albus DONGLEdore

SERVERus Snape

Draco MALWARE

DELLatrix Lestrange

Lord FOLDERmort

And if that wasn't enough proof, the latest addition to Packard's world is the play called 'HP and the Cursored Child'.

Did I miss any characters or places? Tell me know about your favorite Hewlett Packard wizard or witch in the comments section below.

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